calfab, klemm research, and other old school racing goodies (pics inside)

[i58829]

The top angled tube must be cut to clear the plug/boot, but if its been welded on before then it can be welded again if it was taken back to the race setup...

[brapp]

exactly former race glory is awesoem and my plan but the interchangability of the 500motor is just an insane idea

[200x Basket]

while the kx500 swap is easy it is not that easy. that is the only big frame mod but you have other hurtles to get over. i have built one kxt500 (not my mutt) and have thought about putting my kx500 motor into a roller t3 that i have.

while the calfab is made of gold it will be useless with a kx500 on there. i recently flipped my Mutt over in 3rd on grass with a +6" swinger and it will do the same in 5th if i ain careful.

[cr480r]

its takign everythgin insid eme not to just rebuild the suspension and throw my kx500motor in it.
after allits what i origionaly bought it for and just prett ymuch sight unseen and still bought i t the calfab and other stuff wa sjust a turn a probably into a definitly.

No matter who it belonged to or what it was used for... Its still just a 20year old japanese manufactured 3-wheeler... Do whatever you want with it..

[brapp]

yeah i knwo wher eyou allare comign from but i ahve done abotu 5 or 6 of the kx500motors into the tecate-4 chasis, a lt500 into a lt250 hybrid chassis, a gsxr1100 motor into a lt500, a frc450 into a 400ex, a cr500into a 400ex, and a blaster motor into a klt110, a trx250r motor into a trx 90, somotor swaps arent a major deal for me it sjust the fact that i love the tecate 250 the way they are and always wanted an ols school mx trike, but on the othe rhand i want a nasty kx500 powered tecate-3 i am gatherign little parts to put the chasis together and make it runnable with the existign motor i can stillride the kx500in bike form. so i am gonan do it up as a 250 first and then mabey onc ei get allthe bugs worked out chasis wise them mabey the 500 may make a jump over.

[mxnick]

Hey, so it sounds like this bike was one of Donnie Luce's old Factory KXT's - if it had the modified rear subframe, as listed by the other guy on here who was in Florida and had a former factory Tecate. Pretty cool! What did you ever do with the bike? I bet it is worth some huge coin if it is still set up as a race bike...

[yooperman]

if you still have this bike you have any updated pics of its condition now? and you should post pics of that modified subframe. i am digging that skid plate was there ever a repro run on it? because it was sounding like there might have been. what is that other calfab piece you have a picture of in the first set of pictures of the trike? i couldnt figure out what it was. i am gonna have to do some reaserch to get more info on my shock now, because yours is stock and mine looks different and has a sticker that says graydon proline on it HMMMM i am wondering if mine has a good one on it lol.

[bcredneck]

would a factory race bike have a different seirial number or even no number

[sportvette]

brapp -

maybe you could help out here. same questions as yooperman. im having sblt500r custom fab up a skid for my calfab. did you ever look at the repro of this? or can you provide yours for him to copy it (if he needs it)?

also, having frank (fmnrd) looking at reproducing those shroud decals with klemm research. did you ever get anywhere with this either? can you check with him on anything that might help with the project, images or stencil, etc...

if you could help out, really appreciate it. thanks.

[scooterroo]

if you still have this bike you have any updated pics of its condition now? and you should post pics of that modified subframe. i am digging that skid plate was there ever a repro run on it? because it was sounding like there might have been. what is that other calfab piece you have a picture of in the first set of pictures of the trike? i couldnt figure out what it was. i am gonna have to do some reaserch to get more info on my shock now, because yours is stock and mine looks different and has a sticker that says graydon proline on it HMMMM i am wondering if mine has a good one on it lol.

doesnt graydon proline make rc car parts?

[yooperman]

http://www.graydonmanufacturing.com/nerfs.htm

This is graydons web site mostly nerf bars, exhaust's I didn't see anything about shocks though so wondering what mine is now.

[mxnick]

Dupe post, having internet issues. sorry!

[mxnick]

I might be wrong and thus sound like an idiot, but those rad. shroud decals look like stock OEM KXT 250 decals with cutout Klemm Decals stuck on top of them on the stripe. pretty simple to mimic, actually....you just need the Klemm decals. Thats the hard part.

I recall a few weeks ago some dude here on the board had another "factory" kxt posted. I cant find his post, but I do think it is worth comparing his posts, and details on his bike with this, and with the goal to determine if in fact they are factory rides. I had not heard of the other dude and dont know who he was (perhaps we was a tech on the team?), but I do know that the "team green" seat cover on that KXT he has was the real deal from way back in 1986. My memory says they are both 86 models. With only the #31 and the #54 as top riders back then, as well as Jacky Meadows (what number was he?), it shouldnt be too hard to determine or compare these.

This KXT, well, I am not sure about, but with what was discussed with rear grab bar and removable fenders, it sounds like they could have been similar. Though Donnie Luce didnt wear Gear Racewear (I think he was a JT guy), but that doesnt mean that someone didnt purchase this bike from Donnie and or the team and put some Gear stickers on it.

By the way, Gear was a PA company, and this bike was located in PA, so it would make sense that a second or third owner changed the decals to suit their personal sponsors - or tastes.

Anyway, sorry to dig up some ancient 2009 thread here, but it would be cool if we had two former historical race bikes.

Hopefully this rig didnt have some nitro infused kx500 shoehorned into it a very historically significant machine...